Monday, July 28, 2008

At soccer school

Siddarth was up and ready an hour early for the 9 a m soccer training. His mom dressed him up for the occasion.
It was a massive indoor sports facility, where training sessions can be held simultaneously for four age-groups, between 18 months and 9 years. Siddarth is signed up in Group ‘D’ (below which there is no group), in which one of the parents is allowed into the green turf. In the case of higher age-groups parents can watch the training session from behind a glass-wall.
These long shots look hazy because there were taken from behind the glass screen, as I wateched the proceedings from the spectators' bench. Siddarth and ten other determined trainees, and their accompanying parents, were coached by teenager ‘Tony’, who could have stepped out of the cast of girls who play soccer in Gurinder Chadha’s Bend it Like Beckhem.
Siddarth with his coach
– Signing up for the training session.

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